Fire protection - missing classes

[RebeccaHedberg]

Hi,

I work as a fire protection engineer developing 3D fire models. I would like to request IFC classes for objects representing fire protection requirements.

I think it's a real issue that there are no suitable classes for objects that are representative of fire protection requirements. Instead we are using a variety of other classes that end up adding our representative components to the same classes as actual building components which is far from ideal.
The fire model is quickly becoming a natural part of the modeling package in projects and currently the lack of appropriate ifc classes is creating a situation where projects are opting to filter out fire information in different ways when the ifc is the primary information model. This creates quality risks and it is certainly not a wanted outcome that the fire model becomes a problem for the project as we are trying to ramp up the ways in which it can be helpful for projects.

I realize there is no standard for how these elements should be categorized, but we need to move forward with something. I see this as a real quality issue in our models.

KR
Rebecca Hedberg